In Croatia, Panković families are predominantly Croats (from Ilok area ), very rarely Rusyns (from Vukovar ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Vinkovci.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Panković live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), Luka (<10), Vukovar (<5), and in Jamarica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.